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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.

EuroAsia Interconnector: “electricity highway” to Israeli war crimes

The EuroAsia Interconnector is projected to link electricity grids in Israel, Cyprus and Greece via the world’s longest submarine power cable. Crucially, the Interconnector would connect Europe’s electricity grid with Israel’s grid that incorporates the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (OPT), implicating Europe in Israel’s war crimes.

At a cost of €3.5 billion, the project’s stated aim is to end the energy isolation of Cyprus and Crete, linking them to the European network, and to create an “energy bridge between the continents of Asia and Europe.” The project claims to enhance “further the three countries’ geopolitical importance in regard to EU energy security and supply.”

Alongside the EuroAsia Interconnector, a subsea ultra high speed fiber-optic cable system will be laid to connect Israel, at one end, and Spain at the other, passing through Cyprus, Greece, Italy and France. The integration of the so-called Quantum cable in the EuroAsia Interconnector project was agreed at a Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral summit in June 2017 at a cost of $200 million and expected to go live in 2020. Laying of the Quantum cable will mean that 60% of the world’s internet traffic - between Europe and Asia - will pass through Israel, raising serious concerns on security and civil rights.

The Israeli media recentlyrevealedthe deep involvement of Israel’s cyber-spying technology in helping “world dictators hunt dissidents and gays”. An Israeli company, with full protection from the Israeli government, is accused of enablingthe Saudi regime’s tracking of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, eventually leading to his brutal murder.

Construction of the EuroAsia Interconnector is expected to start in June 2019 and end in December 2023.

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